Laus Lucis Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCCDDBBEEFFBBGHIIBB JJKK| Each to his taste some men prefer to play | A |
| At mystery as others at piquet | B |
| Some sit in mystic meditation some | C |
| Parade the street with tambourine and drum | C |
| One studies to decipher ancient lore | D |
| Which proving stuff he studies all the more | D |
| Another swears that learning is but good | B |
| To darken things already understood | B |
| Then writes upon Simplicity so well | E |
| That none agree on what he wants to tell | E |
| And future ages will declare his pen | F |
| Inspired by gods with messages to men | F |
| To found an ancient order those devote | B |
| Their time with ritual regalia goat | B |
| Blankets for tossing chairs of little ease | G |
| And all the modern inconveniences | H |
| These saner frown upon unmeaning rites | I |
| And go to church for rational delights | I |
| So all are suited shallow and profound | B |
| The prophets prosper and the world goes round | B |
| For me unread in the occult I'm fain | J |
| To damn all mysteries alike as vain | J |
| Spurn the obscure and base my faith upon | K |
| The Revelations of the good St John | K |
Ambrose Bierce
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